15k miles Desmo?

Ryfly05 · Mar 19, 2021

lotus7 said:
Thanks for the reply and information Ryfly05.Very helpful and interesting to me.If I could ask another one- Looking at the parts diagrams of the smaller engines ( 899 and 959) they use c rings on ALL the closing shims while on the larger 1199 and 1299 ( dont know about V4) they use a mixture of the c-rings and 1/2 cones as retainers. Does that mean the smaller engines are easier to replace the closing shims on and that you dont need any exotic tool?

I don't believe you need the special tools for those engines, but I don't have any first-hand experience with them either.

lotus7 · Mar 19, 2021

Ok no problem.thanks again

Ryfly05 · Mar 19, 2021

Don14R said:
I used a 7/16” deep socket to knock the intake closer shims apart from the keepers on mine

Tapped it softly a few times

Ducati sells a clutch centering tool too ya know?

That's cool, I'm glad that worked for you. Did you already have the head off?

I tried that method before ordering the $600 tool, but the two on the vertical head were extremely tight even using the special tool and I wasn't about to keep tapping my valves into the top of my piston. For some reason the horizontal head intake closers weren't pressed on as tight, and I probably could have tapped them off, but by that time I already had the tool anyways.

Don14R · Mar 19, 2021

I don’t work at Taylor’s anymore @endodoc but they still let me use the sgf8 (rottler) every now n then

Hmu

endodoc · Mar 20, 2021

Great machine.

rac1ngsnak3 · Mar 20, 2021

Munroe Ducati in SF is $2100

stars_fan · Mar 24, 2021

Damn sausage fingers. How do you work on bikes

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